Friedrich von Amerling was an Austro-Hungarian portrait painter in the court of Franz Josef. He was born in Vienna and was court painter between 1835 and 1880. With Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller he is one of the outstanding Austrian portrait painters of the 19th century He was the son of the gold, and silversmith Franz Amerling and Theresia Kargl. He studied from 1815 to 1824 at the academy of the ar ... more (Google)